AISPO is a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO – non profit entity), founded by a group of operators of the Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital of Milan.
AISPO was formally recognised in 1985 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (with whom the association collaborates constantly) as an organization suitable to implement health cooperation activities in Developing Countries.
AISPO is involved in many project to fight poverty, social injustice and the many diseases that affects the most poor people in the world. AISPO operates through:
• Developing project, supporting with human and material resources several hospitals, health centres, dispensaries. Mobile clinics go trough the African savannas, the middle east deserts, the tropical forests, ascending rivers and lagoons which are means of sustenance but also causes of isolation and backwardness for the peoples who live there.
• Emergency actions, whenever there is the need to face the suffering of people hit by wars, by disasters due to the force of nature, by lethal epidemics.
• Training activities: a constant action in all our projects, to enrich poor countries at least of professional competences, fly-wheel for development.